TEEL is a simple essay structure that many teachers and tutors use to help high school students learn how organise the flow of their thoughts and ideas. It is typically used for VCE text response essays (eg. essays about a book, movie, or other text), and many schools will...
Here are 10 quotes for you, if you're studying Tessa Hadley's Bad Dreams and Other Stories for VCE English or VCE EAL! These quotes are from the first short story, 'An Abduction'...
As mentioned in our last post, TEEL stands for: Topic Sentence, Evidence, Explain, Link. Link to where? The Link is the final section of TEEL, and it is often very hard for our students to get right! We give our students a few principles when it comes to link: The link connects the body paragraph… Continue reading TEEL Structure: Link
Very few students can answer this question: what do you explain in TEEL? Our favourite way to frame it for our students is to ask: How does the Evidence...
Evidence is the part where students present their evidence to support their Topic Sentence! This section is where students draw from their understanding of the text and show off their knowledge. Evidence can include:
TEEL: Topic Sentence! A Topic Sentence tells your teacher or examiner what your paragraph will be about, aka it tells them how they should judge and score your body paragraph. There are a few guidelines we give to our students here at TSE Tuition...
TEEL is the acronym many teachers use to teach students how to write an analytical body paragraph about a text. It stands for...
We know the best way to help our students prepare for the dreaded VCE English exam is to plan (and write) as many essays as possible, but what if you don't have enough prompts to give them? Well, you're in luck! Here are...
If your student is stuck on 'summarising' or 'storytelling' in their essays, you know they must increase the amount and level of their analysis, but HOW do we do this?
How can our teens avoid summarising, or that dreaded comment, 'storytelling!', in their essays? What's the difference between summarising and analysing?
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